Quotes with piano

  • A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
  • I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
  • The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.
  • When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
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  • Barry Mann A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
    Barry Mann
    American songwriter and musician (1939 - )
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  • Amos Oz A translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano.
    The Believer Interview 20 oct 2016
    Amos Oz
    Israeli writer (1939 - 2018)
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  • Boz Scaggs As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.
    Boz Scaggs
    American singer, songwriter, and guitarist (1944 - )
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  • Bill Medley Every so often, if I'm in a melancholy mood, I'll sing 'Desperado' in my shows. I'll sit alone at the piano and play it as a solo. The song feels like an old friend - except now it's saying, 'You were a desperado once, but you worked your way out of it.'
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Igor Stravinsky Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • Ethel Barrymore Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.
    Ethel Barrymore
    American actress (1879 - 1959)
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  • Joan Didion Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Michael Levine Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
    Michael Levine
     
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  • Arthur Godfrey I explained to the lady my love for John and his work, and she made it possible for me to purchase one of the 24 proofs, the one for 'I'm So Tired,' which I have on my piano at home.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • August Wilson I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along.
    August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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  • Burt Bacharach I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Benny Blanco I'm not particularly good at anything. I'm not an incredible guitarist or piano player or songwriter. I think what I do is, when I notice someone is really good at something, I try to get that out of them.
    Benny Blanco
    American record producer, DJ, songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Bill Bruford If it's fast, no I don't have enough piano technique. In that case, it's probably been done on some kind of synthesizer or sequencer. Then the score can then be printed out and so forth.
    Bill Bruford
    English drummer, composer and producer (1949 - )
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  • Tom Lehrer Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.
    Tom Lehrer
    American musician, satirist, and mathematician (1928 - )
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  • Caio Fonseca Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.
    Caio Fonseca
    American painter (1959 - )
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  • Brian Austin Green My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Billy Strayhorn My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.
    Billy Strayhorn
    American jazz composer and pianist (1915 - 1967)
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  • Billy Eckstine Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.
    Billy Eckstine
    American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader (1914 - 1993)
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  • Bruce Forsyth Probably more than anybody else, I loved Nat 'King' Cole as a performer - not only his singing but his piano playing. Whenever he had a new record come out, I'd get it and try to learn how he was playing. And he was one of the nicest people I'd ever met.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Billy Joel Sing us a song you're the piano man Sing us a song tonight Well we're all in the mood for a melody And you've got us feeling alright.
    The Piano Man (1973)
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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